Constructions across Grammars

✍ Scribed by Martin Hilpert (editor), Jan-Ola Östman (editor)

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: Benjamins Current Topics 82
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Up to now, most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages, most notably English. This volume aims to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar towards issues in bi- and multilingualism, second language learning, and generalizations across different languages and language varieties. The contributions in this volume show that speakers entertain generalizations across their repertoire of languages, which holds important implications for a multilingual Construction Grammar.
Originally published in Constructions and Frames 6:2 (2014).

✦ Table of Contents

Table of contents
IntroductionReflections on Constructions across Grammars • Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman
On the borrowability of subject pronoun constructions in Turkish–Dutch contact • A. Seza Doğruöz
On the universality of frames: Evidence from English-to-Japanese translation • Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman and Charles J. Fillmore
Phonological elements and Diasystematic Construction Grammar • Steffen Höder
Clause combining across grammars: A contrastive analysis of L1 and L2 construal of discourse organization • Bracha Nir
Constructional tolerance: Cross-linguistic differences in the acceptability of non-conventional uses of constructions • Florent Perek and Martin Hilpert
Constructions do not cross Languages: On cross-linguistic generalizations of constructions • Philipp Wasserscheidt
Index